Identity area
Reference code
GB 235 LSH/1/1/2/1/46
Title
Rainy night under leaking bamboo roof; barometer and temperature notes
Date(s)
- 1933-07-08 (Creation)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
1 page
Context area
Name of creator
(1898-1967)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
SUMMARY:
The page records barometric pressure and temperature readings and recounts a very uncomfortable rainy night. The diarist describes a leaking bamboo roof, attempting to sleep under an umbrella and tarpaulin, but water pooled and soaked the bedclothes.
CONTENT:
6.52 a.m. Baro. 20.0 Temp 70.70
2271 Trav. Temp 65 10.27
Ludlow p. 12. Last night was a most uncomfortable one. It rained heavily most of the night; the bamboo roof leaked badly, and the rain dripped incessantly into our beds. I slept underneath an umbrella and pulled a tarpaulin over my bed, but the water dripped off the umbrella onto the tarpaulin, where it formed little pools. These, in their turn, soaked into my bedclothes with every movement of my restless body.
